Example:

in $HOME/firefox/[…]default/localstore.rdf:

<RDF:Description RDF:about=“engine:///nix/store/1wbg17x599n4lq60lbgq96d9vq4bp540-firefox-1.5.0.4/lib/firefox-1.5.0.4/searchplugins/google.src”

and worse:

$ strings ./firefox/[…].default/secmod.db | grep /nix
]/nix/store/1wbg17x599n4lq60lbgq96d9vq4bp540-firefox-1.5.0.4/lib/firefox-1.5.0.4/libnssckbi.so

where /nix/store/1wbg17x… is an old version of Firefox. Firefox loads this .so, preventing it from being garbage collected while Firefox is running.

Submitted on 14 September 2006 at 23:20